Beautiful Fall Bouquets.

I just found this beauty of a bouquet at the Treasured Petal blog. I just love the vivid combination of colours an especially the anenomes....beautiful!

Here is a bouquet I did last weekend for a beautiful bride, Amanda, last weekend. I love the fall colours she chose, and the great mix of different flowers she chose.
She was lucky to have a beautifully sunny Saturday to have her outdoor wedding just outside Awenda Provincial Park in Penetanguishene. I can't wait to see the rest of the pictures!

Asrai Garden

Through blogland,I have recently heard about this cool little flower/gift shop in Chicago. It looks so very unique and trendy. I love it when flower shops are mixed with unique giftware that compliments it. Check out some pics...and their website:   http://www.asraigarden.com/home.html

LOVE the mix of flowers in the bouquet above.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful!

Spring Wedding Flowers

 

I had the pleasure of creating some really fun bouquets for a wedding last weekend.

The bride, Sara, had a really great image of what she wanted for her special day. I LOVE it when brides know exactly what they want....makes my job so much easier.

All her maids were wearing black so we could have lots of fun with colour. Hot pink gerbera daisies, green fugi mums, pink calla lilies, green hypericum berries...and lots of fun curled leaves and grasses. Nice and clean and simple!

Floral Inspiration!

Happy March!

I love looking through my blog list...almost daily. And I especially love HouseMartin: http://housemartin.typepad.com/housemartin/

I guess having worked in a few flower shops myself, I can relate to many of her posts. Her shop looks beautiful, and she uses many different and unusual flowers. The arrangement below is from her Valentines Day post.

 

I love the colours in this simple glass square. Orchids and Muscari, Trachelium and Lysianthus.

 

Ranuclus is one of my favourite flowers. They are rose like in their petals, but softer, with quirky fat stems...and come in a beautiful array of colours.

A Muskoka Wedding.

Last fall I was fortunate enough to do the flowers through eventdecorator.com for a beautiful Muskoka wedding. This was a piece I created for the head table. For more gorgeous photos...head to their blog.

eventdecorator.com has just finished it's bridal shows for the year...and their booths were stunning. They really do stand out as being extremely creative in their field. I can take no credit for this, but check out their last booth at Carlu , downtown Toronto here.

Fresh Christmas Arrangements

Just a few arrangements I whipped up this afternoon.  They are for a client I have been working with every Christmas for about15 years. We did the outside of their home a few weeks ago, and these will be going on the inside, as well as a beautiful fresh garland for her mantle.

I have a few more customers for next week. As well I'll be starting work at the florist every day until Christmas eve! I'll have sap hands for sure!

A Fresh Mantle for Christmas.

There is no blue on my Christmas mantle this year! First time in many years I think... although that could all change at any moment, but for now it includes:

• Fresh white Alstormaria in a vase. A great long lasting flower!
• An old altered book...each page folded and left open. I may use it to hold some Christmas cards when they start arriving.
• My "R" ....on old marquee sign letter found in an antique shop in Corning NY.
• Birch bark logs, lovely cut up by my husband. There is a well in the top of each log to hold a tea light. Fresh moss and pears to surround them.
• an old glass jar filled with vintage ornaments.
• a rustic wooden angel given to me by a friend
• a silver cone filled with branches from the yard, sprayed silver. I pulled out all my silver vintage balls to hang on the branches, along with mini disco balls from the dollar store. It is looking a little dark in the picture, but when the sun is shining or the candles are lit, there is a beautiful sparkle!

I've been having fun this week preparing for some beautiful fall weddings. Both are full of variety and texture and wonderful colours.

Both weddings will be happening at resorts in Muskoka this weekend. I'd love to see it all set up and ready to go, but unfortunately this time, I'm working in the studio. 30 centrepieces...12 bouquets....head table arrangements....urns....pew flowers...bouttonieres and corsages...I think I get the fun part!

Wish the pictures were better...but you get the idea.

Beauty Bouquets

A little bit of cheeriness this saturday morning. Love all of these arrangements.

This one is easy...green kermit mums trimmed short and pushed into a block of foam, tied with a ribbon.













For this one the designer saved the stems she cut off and gathered them around the vase. Beautiful rosed, hydrangea, lizzie, and berries.




















I love this one just because it's in an old tin can! How easy is that....and cheep.

Pretty Flowers

Since I've been spending more time looking through the Blogs, I've found so many neat people creating neat things. I like that you can see products and creations from others shops and businesses, but I especially like that you can read where they found an item, or how they came to create it...it's so much more than shopping.

There aren't too many people I know who create flowers like I would, so it is really awesome to be able to connect with these people that I would otherwise have never met!
I love this little flower arrangement from Ink & Peat (flower and gift shop) in Portland. And here is her blog Housemartin.

Dandelion Ranch

I just discovered this very cool little LA flower shop called Dandelion Ranch.

It looks as if it is in an old warehouse type building. I love the casualness of the workspace. And the flowers are beautiful! Who wouldn't like to work here?

A little bitta spring...

K....just in case you think spring is never coming...here is!
I'm just about to plant some grass seed indoors. I like to force it in a shallow dish or tray. It starts sprouting in a matter of days, but takes a couple of weeks to thicken up to a nice green carpet. The kids love to give it haircuts! It's the perfect spot to show off your pretty painted Easter eggs.

If I had a flower...

Wow....it is well into January and I haven't blogged since before Christmas. I haven't been doing nearly as many crafty things as I did before Christmas. I really have quite a bit of scrapbooking I'd like to get into...I think that will be next for me.
Meanwhile, my girlfriend Jane asked me to create a centrepiece for her mother in laws kitchen table. She is always happy to allow me to do my thing...not to many specifications....which makes it so nice. So here it is. Hope she likes it!

Wedding Bells

Congratulations Stephanie!

She has kindly asked me to do the flowers for her December 27th wedding. I'm excited to work on this project for her. Although it is a Christmas wedding, she doesn't want all "Red and Green". So all her flowers will be white with evergreen and touches of silver.... not unlike this picture....BEAUTIFUL!. So stay tuned for more pictures!